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Jaime's favorite roles around town have been in subUrbia, Fefu & Her Friends, The Real Thing and The Sisters Rosensweig. You can see her in a bunch of independent features and shorts, that is if any of the directors ever give her copies. She also performs with the improv groups Ka-Baam! and Scrambled Eggs, but she loves working with trip. more than anything in the universe. If the pilot gods are good, she'll be heading up the reality/improv/gameshow Crashers on TNN in Y2K2.
Melisa Annis originally from Wales, is now in her second full time year in NYC, and loving it! Having worked with a variety of exciting companies and people in NY Melisa is thrilled to be working with trip. on such an exciting project. Theater Credits include Domino’s - National Theater, Wales, Vinegar Tom - The Old Vic Theater, London, The Pantyhose Grid - NYC Fringe Festival, House of Bernarda Alba - Fluellen Theater Company, Three Sisters - Rebellious Subjects. Melisa was also recurring character in Welsh soap opera People of the Valley for many years. Since being in NY Melisa has mostly been directing theater and has just finished assisting Tony Nominated director Bill Russell on his Off-Broadway reading of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, and is currently directing a mammoth production of Henry V as part of the trilogy at Prospect Parks Music Pagoda in Brooklyn.
A graduate of Bennington College, Anthony is co-founder and president of Metropolis DVD, New York City’s first DVD design and production company which works with major record and media companies to develop DVDs such as The Rolling Stones, Four Flicks, Lion’s Gate’s, Secretary, MTV’s, The Real World and USA Film’s Traffic. Anthony returns to his first love, theatre as Producing Director of the 2004 production of finding grafenberg.
Lynn is a native New Yorker. She is a graduate of West Virginia University, where she received her B.F.A. in acting. Regional credits include: Dr. Livingstone in Agnes of God, and Carol in Oleanna. She has also appeared as Marianna in Measure for Measure, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hannah in Arcadia, and Jo in A Few Good Men. Lynn has also appeared as a dancer with Le Masquerade, and Long Island Ballet Theatre.
Gregory is a not-so-recent grad of Bates College, in his home state of Maine. Since then he has spent time in London, where he performed in Much Ado About Nothing and Brian Friel’s Translations, and in Minneapolis, where he played Billy in The Real Thing and The Stranger in 15 Head’s Lady From the Sea. Recent stage credits include Angels in America (I and II) at the Penobscot Theatre, As You Like It at Blue Heron Arts Center, and a world-premiere of the musical Gentleman’s Bet at Columbia’s Schapiro Theatre. He appears in the Sundance fav, Los Enchiladas and the upcoming Griffin Dunne film, Famous. He teaches stage combat to little kids and enjoys speaking about himself in the third person. Odds are you’ve seen him living in a glass house on the back of an eighteen wheeler as he tripped across America with his life webcast live on the internet.
Originally from West Virginia, he came to New York, via west Texas, seven years ago. In that time has played with several New York Bands, primarily on the lower east side. Currently, Billy is performing locally with the alternative band Shirley Temple of Doom.
Theater credits include: Split, Rousing the Head, Our Town, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, FUCK YOU, Reporter Girl, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Film credits include: John's Day, True Dreams, Sorry Ain't Enough, and Hotel Distortion. Peace and love. "...I am the undertow..."
Krystal was born and raised in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. After acquiring her Technical Theater degree at Johnson State College, VT, she moved to NYC to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she received an associate’s degree in acting and participated in the 2007 Academy Company. Previous roles include: Judith Keith in The Jewish Wife, Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest, Blanche in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Bertha in Hello from Bertha, and Teresa in Memory of Water. She would like to thank her family and friends for their continual love and support: “my cup runneth over”
A recent graduate of the American Conservatory Theater's MFA program, Kira Blaskovich is thrilled to be working on her fifth production since moving out to New York. Favorite productions include Vicarious (Bosley Productions, NY Fringe Festival), Cowboy Mouth (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.), Time of Your Life (Steppenwolf Theatre Co, Tina Landau dir.), and two original shows with the Tearany Theater Company started by fellow ACT alum, Marilee Talkington. A grassroots political activist at heart, she hopes to create theater that constantly reminds the audience that reality is perspective and can be changed with a thought.
Jeremy Bohen studied broadcasting at Arizona State University. After graduating, Jeremy returned to New York to pursue a career in sales and marketing. Two years later, he quit his job out of boredom and decided to pursue acting. Since then Jeremy has studied acting with Susan Cohen and Liz Evert at the Susan Grace Cohen Studio. Jeremy has appeared several times on ABC-TV’s All My Children, in corporate films for Sony Electronics and Corning, Inc., and in various theatre and film projects.
NYC: First Look, Cabaret (Encore); Electra Speaks, Electra (MTS); The Feeling of a Beard, Nikita's Wife and The Maid's Tragedy, Evadne (HERE); Four Quarters, Teri (NYC Fringe); Faith, Hope & Charity, Faith/Alice (The Greenwich Street Theater); Me & My Girl, Lady Jaquie (FIT); Wally and Jesus, Judy and Sweet Citrus, Eve (BRIC). Regional: Wild Dust: The Musical, Belle (Centenary Stage); A Woman of No Importance, Lady Stutfield and Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia (National American Shakespeare Co.); Godspell, Robin and Play It Again Sam, Linda (The Knightsbridge Theatre). TV & Film: Arrest & Trial, Dangerous Minds, The Nanny, Beverly Hills 90210, Moesha, Shopping For Fangs, Devolution, and Urchin. Jennifer was also a member of The Malcontent's: Sketch Comedy group in Los Angeles.
Jenifer recently moved to NYC and is thrilled to be making her debut with trip. Originally from Alabama, she graduated with her BFA in Theatre from the University of South Alabama. Stage credits include Aggie Wainwright in The Grapes of Wrath (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Luciana in Comedy of Errors, Madge in Summer Brave, and Clear Glass Marbles in Talking With. Other credits include Libby in Blue Window, Cass in Wonder of the World, Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, and various student films. She would like to send many big, big hugs to her family and friends. And a very special thank you to Mom, Dad, Jean and Kenny for their constant love and sanity.
Stage credits include: Freebase Frankie in The Closer, Edward in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, Melchior in Spring Awakening, Ben in Seascape with Shark and Dancer; twelve roles in Macbeth and Alex in the second American production of A Clockwork Orange. Outside of trip. he has appeared with with the Actor’s Art Theatre out of L.A., Amnesty International, The Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, The Dallas Theatre Center, The Dallas Repertory Theatre, The Castle Shakespeare Repertory, and the Canterbury Theatre outside of Chicago. Film credits include: Sweet and Lowdown, New York - The Documentary and Entourage. Stage directing credits include: 4Play, Sex in a Series, Finding Gräfenberg, Tripping, Red Wine, Sex, Gods & Violent Happiness, Fine, Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille, & Sexual Perversity In Chicago. Film directing credits include: Monologues, Clarity, Visual Reality, Help I'm Stuck in the Closet with Barry Manilow, Macy's at Christmas and The Alice Project. He has performed stand-up at the Improv, The New York Comedy Club, The Funny Bone, The Laff Stop and Froggy Bottems. He is also a founding member of the comedy troupe Ad-Libs.
Bethany Butler is a graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, where she majored in both Theatre and English. She has trained in Los Angeles and Chicago, in addition to London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She most recently appeared as Esther in All About Esther held at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Other New York stage credits include Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Moon of the Caribbees (The Flea Theatre) and the two-women show, Incommunicado.
Originally from New Jersey, Keith has been in New York City for six years now where he studied acting with The Atlantic Theatre Company and has been working in the wonderful world of theater. He recently closed a production of the acclaimed off-broadway show Fools In Love with The Millennium Talent Group at The Manhattan Ensemble Theatre. He has worked with Ludlow 10 Productions as Demetrius and Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, and as Casca and Lepidus in Julius Caesar. He worked for a year with Radio Theatre NYC on various radio plays such as Mad House, Hardboiled, and War of the Worlds. He is currently in pre-production for a film trilogy titled The Medisaga, which begins, shooting this summer. This is Keith's fourth adventure with trip. over the past year. He is thrilled to be working with such an amazing group of talented actors on this amazing project and can't wait for what the future holds.
Kristin Stewart Chase is slated to appear next as Prudence in the new farcical comedy, Dear Prudence sometime this fall. Recent credits include Viola in Twelfth Night for New York Classical Theatre, the title role of Sophocles' Antigone and a glamorous media figure in the mordant comedy, Ismene, for Resonance Ensemble's repertory co. She was a "bat" for two years prior, performing numerous roles at Jim Simpson's Flea Theater, among them Judy in Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever, Sophie in Brecht's Baal and Alma in Alice Tuan's AJAX (por nobody). Each of those shows enjoyed an extended downtown run, and AJAX took her on a sojourn to Australia's Melbourne Fringe Festival. She has also made several appearances with The Metropolitan Playhouse of NY, most recently as Wanda in The Woman. Other favorites include Emily in Our Town and Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession in NYC and Rosalind in As You Like It with Prospect Theater's Georgia venture. Kristin grew up in Arkansas and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.
Avery is an Arkansas native who moved to NYC in August 2002. In the past year he has performed in The Lion in Winter at S.I. Shakespeare, 31 Bond at the Brooklyn Lyceum, Trip/Sexxy with trip., a handful of indy features, and a couple of music videos. Avery is honored to be a part of trip, both acting and production, and would like to thank Lisa, Nate, and Graham for their support and blind faith.
Cindi has performed in NYC at Expanded Arts, NADA, and with The Chekhov Theatre Ensemble in their Stages of Learning Program. She has also performed at the Hangar Theatre and Cornell University Theatre. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University and studied at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies.
Charlotte Cohn was born in Denmark and raised in Israel where she served as a commander in the Army. She most recently appeared in La Boheme on Broadway, directed by Baz Luhrmann.She has performed in Europe and the U.S. as an opera singer including performing as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at the Liederkrantz Opera in N.Y. Off-Broadway credits include performing with Elliott Gould in One Hundred Gates at The Jewish Theatre of NY, and Ambivalence at The Ensemble Studio Theatre. Film credits include Mave in Starving, Nightingale in God in the Machine, Ophelia in The Danish Play and Barb in Samuel Clemens' Boys. She is a member of The Actors Studio.
New York credits include The Two Lovers, Out of Sight ...Out of Murder and Why I Live at the P.O. He has also appeared with the Imperial Theatre in Colorado.
Dean has appeared on film, commercials and on stage. Most notably, Quirk at the Duplex Comedy Cabaret, Scream, with Laughter at the Miranda Theater and Prince of the Clouds at the Trilogy Theater. He has studied with Maggie Flanigan of The William Esper Studios, with Bobby Lewis of the Bobby Lewis Theater Workshop and with Mary Van Dyke. Last summer, he traveled across Ireland in search of the greatest seafood chowder.
Lesslie is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and The Asolo Theatre/Florida State University Conservatory MFA Program, where she has performed with The Asolo Rep in Sarasota. In New York, she has worked with taxdeductible theatre’s Dare Project for the past 2 years as an actor, director, and contributing playwright and has published 2 short plays with taxdeductible. She appeared in trip.’s previous production of 4Play at The Pure Project and is very happy to be tripping again, for the first time.
Shelley has appeared in the New York productions of The Soldier Dreams (Spiral Inc.), Soul Searching - a rock opera (BlackBox Entertainment), Love, Joel (!3th St. Repertory Company), Raw (Cedar Lake) and Candida (Expanded Arts). She has also appeared in several independent films including 100 Stories, It's All Good and most recently, Fragments of Fantasy. Shelley is originally from Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in Theatre and she continued her training with Larry Silverberg and Terry Schreiber here in NY.
Ashley is a graduate of LAMDA. NYC theatre credits include: Beast With Two Backs (Soho Rep) and Specter (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.). London theatre credits include: In Arabia We’d All be Kings (Hampstead Theatre); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Natural Perspectives Theatre Co.); Romeo & Juliet (LAMDA tour); Wild Honey, Death and The Maiden (LAMDA). She has worked on a handful of independant films and commercials and is thrilled to be on this trip.!
Carlo D'Amore has been seen at Soho Rep in Arthur Giron’s A Death of Wealth. Before that, he was shooting the feature film I the Sinner in South America. Other New York Credits include Moment of Truth at Manhattan playhouse, Summer & Smoke at the Roundabout Theatre and Being at Home with Claude on Christopher Street. Prior to moving to New York, Carlo lived and worked in San Francisco where he worked for two seasons at the Magic Theatre working on plays by Constance Congdon and Nilo Cruz. He also spent two seasons with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Most recently Carlo appeared on the HBO series OZ.
Eve has appeared as Player in One Sax, Leight Rain at the Vital Theatre Co., Sarah in Ivanov and Kleopatra in Diary of a Scoundral with the MXAT Summer Program,B.B in A Coupla' Bimbo's Sittin' and Julietta in Measure for Measure both with the Worth St. Theatre Co.; Vanessa in The Shortchanged Review at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Alice in Alice In Wonderland at Expanded Arts; Sweetheart in Advanced Topics of Capricorn at Nada's House of Candles and stand-up at New York Comedy Club. She has also performed at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia. She is a '96 graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.
Kimberly Dilts is an actor, director, and choreographer who is thrilled to be taking this trip.. Recent projects include choreographing War Music, an adaptation of Christopher Logue’s poetic take on the Iliad for FirstWorksProv, The Chicago Humanities Festival and the NY Council for the Humanities, and.co-directing Faust for Aurea (Providence, RI), in which she played the role of Mephistopheles. NY credits include understudying and assistant directing for The Revenger's Tragedy (Off-B’way), and performing in Alice2, The Information She Carried, the Turnip Festival, and readings at the Pearl Theatre, NYTW and The Directors Company. She has also appeared as a guest star on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Dirty Sexy Money. Kim is a graduate of UT Austin’s MFA Acting program.
Greg was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1995. Greg has worked as a video editor and was a member of the Main Street Players of Boone County, where he worked both onstage and behind the scenes. He began his work with trip. in 1999 as stage manager for Tripping. Greg is a member of the Board of Directors of Greater New York Mensa.
Vivan is happy to be working with trip for the first time on their short film Clarity. She studies film at the Stella Adler Acting Conservatory and has appeared in numerous commercials. She is currently with TTA Management (212) 689-2800.
Tate is a native of Mississippi. Attended the University of Mississippi were he received a B.F.A in Theatre Performance. He has lived in New York for about a year and a half. Most recent stage credits include Sir Andrew in a production of Twelfth Night and Randy in a production of Only in Beverly Hills. His next project will be a play entitled X-Factor. You can also see him sometime in November performing at the Gotham Comedy Club with the sketch comedy troupe Spurn.
Brian is happy to be “tripping” again in 4Play. His last trip show was Wrapped In America two years ago. Recently he completed the film version of Liars, adapted from the stage version which was mounted three years ago. Around town he has also performed in Hell’s Gate, The Lion In Winter, and Six Degrees Of Separation. His feature film debut was in Rick with Bill Pullman where he played a young Wall Street Executive.Television credits include All My Children, As The World Turns, and One Life To Live.
Nathan grew up in a small cow town in upstate New York. He can be seen in the films Kottentail, Deployment Strategy, Singularity, Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned, Pinkeye and Bigfoot at Holler Creek Canyon, in which he played Bigfoot and had the distinct pleasure of killing Ron Jeremy. He can also be seen in the up coming films, The Shreiking and Hunting Season. He supplied the monster sound effects for Troma’s latest film Poultrygeist. He is a contributing playwright of several plays including trip.s finding graffenberg and the critically acclaimed, 4PLAY. He has officially been dubbed, “The Scream King”, by Fangoria Radio and, “The next Bruce Campbell” by Crazy Ralph Films. Most importantly, he has an unhealthy fascination with monkeys.
After graduating from Texas Woman's University with her degree in Drama, Amanda Fekety traveled doing regional theatre. She is happy to finally make New York her home. Favorite roles include Daisy in the first American production of the British play Daisy Pulls it Off, Abigail in The Crucible, Fanny in On The Verge, and Mandel in Playing for Time. New York credits include Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart.
Shaneye is currently based out of Texas. Movie credits include: Jessie in The Red Shoes, Lauren in Plane Short, and Taco in Black Coffee, among others. She has appeared on stage in New York in productions including This Love, The Santa Pimp in the 1999 NY Fringe Festival, and Sally. She has also performed in various regional theatres and done voice-overs for ADV Films, AMC Networks and The Romance Classics Network. She is a ’95 graduate of Texas Tech University
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Penny Fick recently moved to NYC after graduating from Emory University with a BA in Theater Studies. While at Emory, she was cast in a number of productions, including Spring Awakening, Bury the Dead, King Lear, and She Stoops to Conquer, among others. Most recently, Penny was seen fondling audience members in Happy Hour, a.k.a. Sex, Relationships, and Sometimes... Love (45th Street Theater), and behaving similarly in a variety of short films and commercials. She also appeared in her first feature film, Three Chris’s, which premiered in May at the opening of the Hoboken International Film Festival. She loves 4Play. In her spare time, Penny is a cat burglar.
Ralph Fontaine has worked professionally as an actor, director and producer of television, film and theater in Los Angeles, Seattle, and now New York. Recent acting roles include Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Menelaus in Helen with Extant Arts Company. As a director/producer Ralph’s work has been shown on MTV, The Travel Channel and The Discovery Channel as well as in lesser known venues such as corporate boardrooms and private living rooms. He thanks trip. for letting him be a part of their process, and hopes that 4PLAY will continue as a multimedia experience that reaches audiences of varying levels of sobriety wherever they may be.
A relative newcomer to New York City, Jamie is pleased to have worked with trip. He's lived and worked in Florida, Los Angeles, Denver, Cape Cod, Ohio and West Virginia. Favorite roles include Ben in The Dumbwaiter, Manus in Translations, Slim in Cowboy Mouth, and Horatio in Hamlet. Jamie holds an MFA from the FSU/ASOLO Conservatory.
Amber received her BFA in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts where she originated the role of Tia in Fitting Rooms. Amber has an extensive classical background playing such roles as Rosalind in As You Like It and Olivia in Twelfth Night. She is an Associate Member of 29th Street Repertory in NYC where she played Erin in Hiding Behind Comets, Carol in North of Providence, and understudied the role of Alice in The High Priest of California. Amber is thrilled to be a part of the vision that is trip.
A native New Yorker, Craig returned home in 2003 after lengthy stints in Boston, Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco. Craig's New York theatrical credits include Aldo in Italian American Reconciliation (Gene Frankel Theatre), Paul Campbell in Paul Campbell Hits the Bigtime (Instant Theatre), Jason in Emily (Sanford Meisner Theatre) and Jacob in Stop the Wedding (St. Marks Theater). His television credits include ABC-TV's All My Children and One Life to Live and CBS-TV's Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Craig has also appeared in over thirty feature-length and short films, including award-winners such as The Adventures of Supern-gger, In Innocence, Madison Rye and Niko and Vahko.
Caitlin is thrilled to be making her trip. debut with such a delicious production. Favorite credits include Twelfth Night (Olivia), Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolen), Hay Fever (Sorel Bliss), The Dancers (Emily Crews), The Wayside Motor Inn (Sally), and many more. Caitlin hails all the way from Toronto, Canada, where she has been acting and dancing since the very ripe old age of four. Caitlin is a proud graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (2008) and has starred in over a dozen independent films, webisodes, and television commercials. Much love and gratitude to my dear family and friends.
Being a Musical Theatre buff, Megan doesn't quite know yet how to get through a scene without bursting into song, so working with trip. was a welcomed challenge. Hailing from Kansas, Megan has been performing onstage since the age of 10. She is a recent graduate of New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where she appeared in such productions as Sweeney Todd (Ensemble), Divorce Me, Darling (Hannah) and Camelot (Lady Anne). Other stage credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia), Taming of the Shrew (Katherine), A Chorus Line (Diana Morales), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), and a tour of The Music Man (Mrs. Squires).
Matt is very happy to be working on 4 Play, Sex in a Series. He has recently been seen in Dulcy with Love Creek and in the Samuel French Festival in Family. He graduated from the Actors Studio Drama School where he was seen in Pinter's One For the Road, Traindog and The Clay Pot Bloom. He has also been seen in a number of short films including 15 Waffles which played in festivals across the country.
Carley has performed in Spring Awakening at Expanded Arts. Prior to that she has been gallivanting about the New York theatre scene, cavorting with the likes of Classic Stage Company & The Pearl, as well as a few unmentionables, and many in between. Currently a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s actor/director lab, Carley is, among other things, a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Corey is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she spent two years in the Meisner Extension studio and a year training in Viewpoints. New York credits include roles in TopGirls, Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays and Carnival Girls. Corey also serves as Artistic Director of the New York City branch of Sunflower Works. She is thrilled to be part of trip. and would like to thank friends, family and teachers for their constant support.
Ellen Haynes has performed with companies in Greece, Italy, Scotland and the Bahamas. Recent NYC and regional credits include Rosalind in As You Like It, Ariel in The Tempest, Viola in Twelfth Night, and her original work Theresienstadt. Ellen graduated from the BFA Acting program at the University of Southern California and studied filmmaking in Prague. She is excited to be on this new adventure with trip.
Jeni is a William Esper Studios graduate as well as a member of Inverse Theatre. New York credits include Aria in Icarus and Aria, directed by Aaron Beall; Peakabo in Life’s Losses Loved and Hey Baby in Sex Toys & Subway Stories, both directed by Kirstin Ames, Walker in The Death of Griffin Hunter, directed by Emma Griffin; and Hermione in A Winter’s Tale with Tyrannosaurus Rep. Regional credits include Agnes in A Bright Room Called Day. Television credits include Law and Order.
Ben Hindell produced and played the lead in Veins and Thumbtacks at the Abingdon Theatre Co. He has appeared in such award winning productions as Last of the Dragons and The Ransom of Redchief both at the Vital Theater Company and Dead End at the John Houseman Theater. He has acted in various independent films such as Believe which featured the late singer Aaliyah and a commercial for Alamo Car Rentals. As a producer, Ben presented an evening of one acts entitled Uptown With Love at the Blue Heron Arts Center and as well as The Guitar Lesson a short digital film.
Adam trained with Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth in DC, and currently studies with Terry Schreiber here in NYC. Proud to have brought to life Dr Marc Blumen in Self-Portrait as Schiele at the NY Fringe, as well as “Eric” Rowland in the wildly successful The Sublet Experiment. Much love to Mom and Dad, whose endless supply of Starbucks gift cards have no doubt helped in the memorization of his lines this year.
Julia recently wrote, produced and was featured in an original work, Cooch (working title) which is currently in development again. She also performed with the company she co-founded with Jessica Jolly, Cameo Theatre, at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival in Precipice. Her favorite roles include Snitch in A Beggar's Opera with Aisling Arts and Delores in Mr. Sunshine and the Radio Dame at Manhattan Theatre Source. Julia has a B.F.A. in theatre from Florida International University and has studied at various NYC schools including HB Studio, The School for Film and Television, New Dance Group and Atlantic Theatre Company. She is pleased for the chance to work with this impressive group of artists for the first time.
A native of Kansas City, Missouri, came to New York City to attend acting school at NYU. Since graduating, Jessica has appeared in many New York productions of classics and new works, in such venues as Here Arts Center, Collective Unconcious, Teatro La Tea, Producers Club, and the NY Fringe Festival. Notable roles she’s played include Cordelia in King Lear, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Rossignol in Marat/Sade. She has starred in a large number of student and independent films, and will be shooting a feature film this winter with writer/directer Reid Rosefel.
Dawn has lived in New York City since she graduated Western Connecticut State University in 2002. Prior to attending WCSU, Dawn studied with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since moving to NYC, Dawn has performed in multiple Indie films including The Night Life and the soon to be released feature Fillbilly, as well as the short filmThe Plum which had premiered in the Berlin Film Festival. She has also recently been seen in commercials and Showcases. Some of her favorite roles performed include Marjorie in Extremities, Bananas in The House of Blue Leaves, Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard, Karen in The Bleeding Heart (with William Fichtner). She has also performed in the independent film Clean-Shaven with Peter Greene. Television credits include: MTV, Another World and As the World Turns. Dawn has been has been in private study acting workshop with Le Mos and has also attended Weist-Barron and The School of Performing Arts. Dawn’s artistic training beyond theatre involves singing, ballet, point, modern, and tap dancing.
Jessica is originally from Chicago, aka CHI TOWN, and is damn proud of it. She is currently a student at New York University at the Stella Adler Conservatory. She has also trained at Second City Chicago, Comedy Sportz, and currently with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She is thrilled to be one of the newest members of trip.
Elle is currently living on the "Third Coast" (Austin, TX), and has been thrilled to be make guest appearances in the Big Apple. She graduated from The University of Texas with a BA in Theatre and Dance, and has worked on several films & videos in Austin. However, her favorites are the theatrical roles of Anna in The Baltimore Waltz, and Pete in A Clockwork Orange.
Ericka has performed regionally with various theatres including: The Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Next Act Theatre, Prop Theatre of Chicago, and First Stage Milwaukee. As a writer, Ericka has written many monologues, one-acts and plays for youth: including Stand Up, an anti-violence play currently touring with Lamb's Players Theatre in Coronado, CA and her one woman show, Beginnings, Belongings, and Bodegas, which was premiered last October at La Bottaga del Arts. She will be performing it again this January with Renaissance TheatreWorks in Milwaukee. Ericka is a graduate of the Conservatory of Theatre at Webster University in St. Louis and has studied with Gene Frankel in New York. Ericka also loves to play her harp in the subways during the holidays, with her rock star friend Katy.
Alexa Kryzaniwsky is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in drama. She has had four years of exciting training under NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, both in New York and Amsterdam. Since graduating, she has had the opportunity to work under the professional mentorship of JoAnne Akalaitis in the 2006 Baryshnikov Arts Center Tisch Alumni Fellowship and in a reading of The Bacchae at The Public. Alexa has also had the opportunity to work at The Gene Frankel Theatre in, A Brilliant Play by, John McEnroe, and in the Bread and Puppet Theatre's Out of Time; A Puppet Spectacle at the St. Ann's Warehouse Labapalooza festival. Recently, Alexa performed in the Richmond Shepard Theatre's comedy, Best Party Ever, and a featured role in an independent film, Rich From Within, which will be premiering at the Action on Film Festival in Long Beach, CA. She is thrilled to be working with the trip. family and gives a special thanks to all those involved in the production for an awesome and memorable theatrical experience.
Recent New York credits include The Twilight Ladies (Tribeca Playhouse), Ampersand (The Riverside Stage Company), Platonov and The Playboy of the Western World (The Oasis Theatre Company), Who Will Carry the Word (A Piece of Work Theater Company), and Schvesters (The Sage Theatre). Regional credits include The Black Glove (The Vox Theatre Company), The Twilight of the Golds (NorthStar Productions), and The Diary of Anne Frank (Living Arts Repertory Theatre).
Tina Manchise is a B.F.A. graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. She has performed in numerous theatre, film and dance pieces here in New York. Most recently as 'Natalie Wood' in Stalking Christopher Walken at the NY Fringe Festival and the title role in Rikki TikkiTavi at The Manhattan Children's Theatre (finally employing years of Kung Fu training onstage). Recent credits include Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, Tartuffe, Blue Window, SubUrbia, Death Defying Acts, and The Skryker, to name a few. She has also performed with The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in The Sustenence Project and has helped to create several origional dance pieces such as ...neither here nor there... and The Weight of Water, among others.
Some of Jonah's favorite stage roles include the title character in Miss Julie, Lala Levy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Desdemona in Othello, and Karen in Speed the Plow. She appeared as June in the Off-Broadway revival of Smoke on the Mountain and has worked regionally with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Theatre Three, Hip Pocket Theatre and Classic Theatre Company. Jonah's film credits include Ball in the House , starring David Straithairn and Jennifer Tilly and a leading role in Late Bloomers, an official Sundance selection. She has appeared in movies of the week and television series too embarrassing to mention as well as regional and national commercials, and is represented commercially by The Gage Group (212-541-5250)
Randall McFadden is grateful to be back on stage after having spent several months devoted to music & film. Has been seen recently doing theatre and film all over the city and regionally. Randall plays music around the tri state with the band Quellish as well as the legendary Big Gummy Allstars. Randall is a founding member of the AAB society and received his BA from Shenandoah University.
Regional credits include: Danceny in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Wilma Theater), Evan Wyler in As Bees in Honey Drown (Charlotte Repertory Theater), and Rodent in Tony Kushner’s Slavs! (Manbites Dog Theater), among others. Here at home he’s appeared with trip., atm, adobe, and in the NYC International Fringe Festival. He spent a year touring Twelfth Night (Aguecheek), The Tempest (Ferdinand), Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Guildenstern in both) with Shenandoah Shakespeare, including the Paris, Germany, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and two weeks in Ottawa. Film credits include: The Overlookers, and the shorts Arabian Nights and Clarity. Matt is artistic director and co-founder of HungerArts Theater, for whom he just directed The Darling Family.
Kate is very happy to be working with trip. She’s a SUNY Oswego grad with post-grad work at NYU, School for Film & Television and Actors Alliance Studios. Her stage credits include Sustaining at the Manhattan Theatre Source, The Last Resort at Chashama Theatre, August Strindberg’s MotherLuv at Creative Artists Lab and most recently, a Sanford Meisner Tribute at The Producer’s Club. Her film credits include The Sonnet Project, Running Time, Skinny Boy Parodies, and Lenny Hates… on DailyComedy.com. She’s also an avid contemporary art fan- her favorite works being that of her sister, Meghan McGrath. She also attempts to play the acoustic guitar.
Dan McVey recently finished studying at the William Esper Studio after graduating from Rutgers University. Favorite stage roles include Jeff in Suburbia, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Billy in Checkers. Dan is happy to be working with trip. and is also a proud member of Blank Slate Theater Company.
Emily is a proud member of both trip. and Blank Slate Theater Company in NYC. Along with her trip. credits, she has performed in Breakfast Lunch Dinner, Running Start, and Girls of Tuam with Blank Slate. Other of her favorite stage experiences include Fefu and Her Friends, I'm Not Rappaport, and An Inspector Calls; as well as a summer on board a showboat doing melodrama, and another summer camping and acting in the New York Renaissance Faire. Film and Television Credits include: Like a Springsteen Song, Serial, The Replacements, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Emily graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in both Drama and Psychology and completed the 2 year Meisner program at the William Esper studio in 2003. She would like to thank trip. for all the good times.
Lesley Miller is a graduate of Allentown College in Pennsylvania, and of Mountview Theatre Conservatory in London, England. She has recently appeared as Maggie in Boy’s Life at the American Theater of Actors. Other Stage work includes; Much Ado about Nothing (Beatrice), Red Cross (The Maid) and The NYC premiere of The Sacred Virgin (Bridget) and A Yellow Butterfly Called Sphinx (Student). Recent Television credits include Saturday Night Live. She will also be appearing in the upcoming film Spider-Man - 2.
Soneela Nankani is a 2007 graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Acting program. Her work at Columbia included training with Andrei Serban, Kristin Linklater and Anne Bogart. In addition to many independent and Columbia film credits, Soneela’s theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classic Stage Company), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Happy Days and The Cherry Orchard. Soneela is an Associate Artist with Sojourn Theatre. She has appeared in several Sojourn Theatre productions including Seven Great Loves and Passing Glances. In 2003, Soneela and Sojourn Theatre won five “Drammy” (Portland, OR Theatre) Awards including Best Ensemble and Production of the Year for Seven Great Loves.
Nick attended an All-Boys/Catholic/Military School for six years, before moving to the city and graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama and a minor in English. Recent credits include roles in The Merchant of Venice, The Misanthrope, Dove For Sale and The Three Minute Hamlet. He will next be seen as featured in upcoming episodes of “Z-Rock”, “Chaos Theory”, “The City” and in productions from The Oasis Theatre Company. Much love and thank to his family and friends.
“If you reach for the sun you will reach the stars!” That has been Michael’s motto even before entering La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts and later graduating from the State University at Purchases College with a B.F.A. in theater arts. His recent theatre credits include The Hologram Theory with Joe Lee at the Blue Light Theatre, Dream on Monkey Mountain at the Denver Center and The Queen Bee’s Last Stand at The Blue Heron Arts Center where he originated the Role of Booker T. Buffer. His film credits include NBC’s Mentor and the Hip Hop Owls, As the World Turns and several MTV promo spots.
Scot Parish has put together an eclectic resume by appearing in a variety of independent films over the last few years. The highlight would be appearing in a Law and Order episode as a bartender at a local Irish pub, a role he was in training for, for over twenty-five years. He would like to thank his beautiful wife & daughter for their extreme patience and understanding.
Molly Perch returned to New York after graduating from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. There she appeared as Frosine in Moliere’s The Miser. She recently co-starred as The White Rabbit in Alice Underground, winner of "Best Short" in the 1999 New York Independent Film Festival. Molly has also studied at HB Studios with Carol Morely and Sanford Morris.
Laura was born in Canada, and raised in Lebanon, Iran, Brazil, Indonesia, and Egypt. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, she has been in New York for almost 2 years, and is still trying to catch her breath. Recent theatre credits include Goneril in King Lear, Toinette in The Hypochondriac, and Luciana in Comedy of Errors (all with the Texas Shakespeare Festival), and Perdita in A Winter's Tale with the Hampton Shakespeare Festival. She is thrilled to hop onto this leg of the trip. Special thanks and love, as ever, to Mom & Dad and Derek.
Cynthia Posillico is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has been acting in New York theatre for five years, most recently seen in the debut production of Clive Barker's The History of the Devil. She has also been in several national television commercials.
K.C. Ramsey has appeared in numerous stage productions including work with the Negro Ensemble Company, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and Urban Stages. He recently appeared in the N.Y. production of The Closer at the Pantheon Theater. His film credits include, Electing Jack Powell, Night Falls on Manhattan and A Day in Black & White starring Harold Perineau and Lonette Mckee. K.C. thanks anyone who supports him. They know who they are.
Richard is a graduate of the California State University College of Creative Arts where he studied the combined disciplines of Theatre & Music. Besides performing with trip., New York credits include; My name is Lyka at The HB Studio Theatre, Latin Lives at The Miranda Theatre, Unforgettable at The Actor’s Institute and the role of Larry in A Day with My Dead Husband, Hector at The Soto Cutural Center. Richard also produces and performs with Flying Furr Improv.
Lisa is currently developing the screenplay for her original play Coming or Going, which was produced by Pretty Little Heads at Manhattan Theatre Source. She has been a performer, producer, director and/or playwright for productions on various stages around the city as well as working on a variety of film and video projects. Lisa enjoyed serving as the Managing Director of trip. for many years, and in addition to 4PLAY, is a contributing playwright of trip. shows such as finding gräfenberg and Sex, Gods and Violent Happiness. She has a BFA in Theatre from Texas Tech University.
Jessica was born and raised in Fort Worth Texas, and moved to New York City in 2005 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After studying there, she made her entrance into the Dallas theater scene. Some of her credits there include: Picnic (Madge), The Sisters Rosensweig (Tess), Sleeping Beauty (Princess Briar Rose), and Vodka and Kisses. After spending a year back in Texas, she returned to NYC to continue her studies at William Esper Studio, where she is now a recent graduate. Some of her New York Stage credits include: Awesome 80’s Prom, The Rimers of Eldritch, Summer Brave, and 2550 Star Place. She is also a member of the Terrapin Troupe for Turtle Shell Productions. Some of her film credits include: Three Men and a Lady, The Un-Aimed Arrow, The Bastard Men of Root Flats, and over 15 short films for The School of Visual Arts. She is happy to be a part of 4PLAY and trip.!
Charles has played many roles in regional theatre including Hamlet, Roderigo (in an award-winning production of Othello in Malaga, Spain) and the doctor in A Streetcar Named Desire at Columbia University. While studying liberal arts at Columbia, he made the jump from theatre to film. Having also been very involved in student politics at Columbia, Charles does seem to be following the career path of a famous actor/ex-President, but wants to make it clear that his politics are far from similar.
Aaron lived in San Diego, CA and Seattle, WA before moving to New York. He is thrilled to be working with trip. Credits include This Is Our Youth, Temptation,The Heat In Alphabet City, The Little Foxes, Black Comedy, and a theatrical adaptation of Dead Poets Society. He has also performed with the Boston-based sketch comedy group Chocolate Cake City. In addition to appearing in a handful of independent films, Aaron has worked behind the camera and in the editing room doing production sound and sound design for several short films currently screening on the festival circuit. He has a B.A. in Visual/Media Arts from Emerson College in Boston, MA.
Stephanie is a founding member of collaborations, and performed as Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid during the 2004 summer reading series. Stephanie has performed in many off-off-Broadway productions and has played a wide variety of roles, including Wanda in The Baby Dance, Stephano the drunken butler in The Tempest, Lina the maid in Chekov's The Bear, Carrie in The Great Nebula in Orion, Sissy in Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the roles of the Wife and the Whore in The Good Doctor, and as Soot in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. She appeared in the short film, The Salesmen, and studied improv at The Second City Training Center in NY. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Joy recently played Miranda in Expanded Arts/Shakespeare in the Parking Lot's The Tempest. Regional credits range from classic comedy to contemporary drama: Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Three Tall Women, Biloxi Blues, Hedda Gabler, School for Scandal, Anton in Show Business, Hysteria, Dracula (twice), Frankenstein, and The Blue Room, in addition to Shakespeare's Juliet, Viola, Hero, Ladies Macbeth, Macduff and Percy, Perdita and Diana. M.F.A. Alabama Shakespeare Festival, B.A. Towson University.
Joe has appeared in various shows inside various venues throughout the Tri-State area. Favorite roles include Stan in JFK vs. The UFOs at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Young Pappy in The Tinklepack Patrol at HERE Arts, Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night at the Kraine Theatre, Luke in Opelika at the Pantheon Theatre, Joe in Nine (not the musical) at the Trilogy, and Arnold in The Boys Next Door at Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Film credits include Late Watch, Evan's Getting it Together, and Catch me if you Can. Joe also performs with the sketch comedy group Mini Red Satan. He learned "a lot of stuff" from his Meisner teacher, Kathryn Gately, for whom he gives one thousand and one thank yous to.
